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I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Charles Moore. - Jul. 24 (Opinion) - What with the phone-hacking scandal, the eurozone crisis and the US economic woes, the corrupt few have left people disillusioned with our debased democracies, says Charles Moore.

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Boeing delivers 787 Dreamliner

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Oliver Smith - Jul. 04 (News) - Boeing delivered its first 787 Dreamliner yesterday – more than three years behind schedule. The Dreamliner, billed as one of the world’s most fuel-efficient aircraft, flew from the manufacturer’s headquarters in Renton, near Seattle, to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport.

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Web domain sale represents a real business opportunity

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Emma Barnett - Jun. 12 (News) - At first glance, the topic of internet domain names may not seem important...

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Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound

Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Steven Swinford - May. 05 (News) - The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.

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A clueless presidency adrift in a sea of confusion: Barack Obama sinks again at the polls

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Nile Gardiner - Apr. 01 (Opinion) - The Quinnipiac poll should be a wake-up call for a president deeply out of touch with an increasingly disillusioned electorate. But unfortunately there is little sign he is listening.

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp considers MySpace sale

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Rupert Neate - Nov. 30 (News) - Chase Carey, News Corp’s chief operating officer, said the media giant was actively considering selling the social networking site it bought for $580m (£373m) in 2008.

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Britain's top soldier says al-Qaeda cannot be beaten

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent - Nov. 14 (News Report) - The new head of Britain's armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam.

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Karl Rove questions Sarah Palin's suitability for president

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Alex Spillius - Oct. 28 (News) - Karl Rove, the former senior adviser to George W Bush, has cast serious doubt on Sarah Palin's viability as a White House candidate.

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Global 'internet treaty' proposed

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Claudine Beaumont - Sep. 20 (News) - The proposal was presented at the Internet Governance Forum in Lithuania last week, and outlined 12 “principles of internet governance”, including a commitment from countries to sustain the technological foundations that underpin the web’s infrastructure. The draft law has been likened to the Space Treaty, signed in 1967, which stated that space exploration should be carried out for the benefit of all nations, and guaranteed “free access to all areas of celestial bodies”.

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Has Stephen Hawking ended the God debate?

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Graham Farmello - Sep. 03 (News Report) - God did not create the universe, Stephen Hawking revealed yesterday. In the flurry of publicity preceding his new book, The Grand Design, to be published next week, he does some serious dissing of the Almighty, declaring him/her/it irrelevant. The point is, he says, that our universe followed inevitably from the laws of nature. But, we might ask, where did they come from? It is perhaps a bit rich for Hawking to make God redundant after granting him/her/it a celebrity cameo at the end of his multi-million selling A Brief History of Time. In his famous conclusion to the book, Hawking wrote that if scientists could find the most fundamental laws of nature "then we should know the mind of God". To be fair, he was writing metaphorically – we all know what he meant.

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North Korea condemned by world powers over torpedo attack

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Peter Foster, Malcolm Moore - May. 20 (News Report) - An official report found that a North Korean vessel had fired upon the Cheonan in the night before retreating back into North Korean waters. The report was greeted with outrage by the US, Britain, Japan and the UN. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs

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Breast milk kills cancers claim scientists

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Richard Alleyne - Apr. 20 (News Report) - In new evidence set to spark debate over whether breastfeeding is best, scientists have found breast milk provides a natural immunity boost for youngsters. The same compound, Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made Lethal to Tumour cells or HAMLET, could be a

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Pensioners face 'pay as you die' council tax, Tories claim

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By James Kirkup - Feb. 21 (News) - Under rules approved by Parliament last year, pensioners in Northern Ireland now have the option to defer bills for domestic rates – the equivalent of council tax – until after their death.

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UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Richard Gray, Rebecca Lefort - Jan. 31 (News Report) - The IPCC report, which is published every six years, is used by government's worldwide to inform policy decisions that affect billions of people. The claims about disappearing mountain ice were contained within a table entitled "Selected observed effects due to changes in the cryosphere produced by warming". It states that reductions in mountain ice have been observed from the loss of ice climbs in the Andes, Alps and in Africa between 1900 and 2000. But neither the dissertation or the magazine article cited as sources for this information were ever subject to the rigorous scientific review process that research published in scientific journals must undergo.

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There'll be nowhere to run from the new world government

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Janet Daley - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - The dangerous idea that the democratic accountability of national governments should simply be dispensed with in favour of "global agreements" reached after closed negotiations between world leaders never, so far as I recall, entered into the arena of public discussion.

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Pakistan closes in on Taliban leader's South Waziristan strongholds

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Saeed Shah, Daud Khan - Oct. 19 (News Report) - Troops were advancing towards the towns of Makeen and Ladha in the mountainous region of South Waziristan, in a military offensive that could prove decisive in the country's struggle against Islamic extremism.

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Racial tension simmers on Martha's Vineyard as Barack Obama arrives

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Aug. 20 (News Report) - When Barack Obama arrives on Martha's Vineyard for his first family holiday as president, he will enjoy the sparkling sea, salty air and fresh fish and clams. And like others he will probably be unaware of the thousands of illegal immigrants the island relies on during its summer season. But in the recession, a small army of dishwashers, gardeners and labourers, mostly from Brazil, has created a simmering tension with some locals and amid the excitement over the impending trip of the Obamas, some islanders hope their visit will bring attention to problems with immigration.

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White House turns to campaign tactics as support erodes for health care reform

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden - Aug. 13 (News Report) - The latest survey shows that the backlash in public meetings with politicians against health reforms is sapping support for the flagship policy of Barack Obama's administration. In a USA Today/Gallup poll, 34 per cent of a sample of Americans said that sessions with members of Congress had made them more sympathetic to the views of protesters. Some 21 per cent had become less sympathetic.

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Lawns will become sign of 'moral decadence' because of climate change

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Louise Gray - May. 01 (Special Report) - In the short term, water shortages in the next 12 years will make it difficult to have a lawn. Like in Australia during recent droughts, Prof Dixon said watering a lawn will be seen as an extravagance only experienced by the rich. "Lush, well-watered, English 18th and 19th Century parklands will suffer. Retaining their rural Arcadian charm requires reversion to wild flower meadows managed with traditional hay-cuts without mowing until early September," he said. "Clinging to the grassy elegance of English lawns will be signals of social and moral decadence."

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Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - Apr. 24 (Special Report) - There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?

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Barack Obama goes ahead with missile defence shield despite disarmament pledge

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Toby Harnden, Bruno Waterfield - Apr. 06 (News Report) - "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward with a missile defence system that is cost-effective and proven," he told a crowd of about 20,000 gathered in Hradcany Square, next to Prague Castle. "Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran's neighbours and our allies."

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US tried to gag Binyam Mohamed with plea bargain

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Nick Allen - Mar. 27 (News Report) - He would also have been required to abandon a legal attempt to obtain documents which he believed could prove his innocence. Clive Stafford Smith, Mr Mohamed's lawyer, said: "This reflects the way the US government has consistently tried to cover up the truth of Binyam Mohamed's torture.

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Half of us are barely literate and it's getting worse

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Alasdair Palmer - Feb. 01 (Comment) - The most graphic illustration of the failure of the British education system is the vast number of people who, despite 11 years of full-time schooling, cannot read, write and add up properly. The Government's own figures show that 5.2 million workers in Britain today are "functionally illiterate", and 6.8 million are "functionally innumerate". "Functional illiteracy" is not the same as the blank inability to read anything – but the bar for competence is not set very high. If you can't read the stories in The Sun, or the signs in a station indicating from which platform your train departs, you are functionally illiterate. Similarly, "functional innumeracy" involves such things as being unable to calculate the change you are owed, or how much you spend every month on regular purchases.

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History will show that George W Bush was right

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Andrew Roberts - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - In the avalanche of abuse and ridicule that we are witnessing in the media assessments of President Bush's legacy, there are factors that need to be borne in mind if we are to come to a judgment that is not warped by the kind of partisan hysteria that has characterised this issue on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Three million pensions to suffer savings shock, experts predict

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Telegraph - By Myra Butterworth, Harry Wallop - Dec. 16 (News Analysis) - Many could see their income they earn on their savings drop by more than half if they are currently locked into short-term savings deals that offer high rates of return, experts warned.

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